Match List-I of books on tribes with List-II of their authors and select the correct answer using the codes given below: List-I (Books): (i) The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India (ii

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Match List-I of books on tribes with List-II of their authors and select the correct answer using the codes given below: List-I (Books): (i) The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India (ii) Tribal Development in M.P. : A Planning Perspective (iii) The Bhils : A Study (iv) The Baiga; List-II (Authors):

1. Verrier Elwin

2. T.B. Naik

3. R.V. Russell and R.B. Hiralal

4. Ajit Raizada

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Correct — A, (i)-3, (ii)-4, (iii)-2, (iv)-1. 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' (four volumes, 1916) was compiled by R.V. Russell of the Indian Civil Service, assisted by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, under the orders of the Central Provinces administration — so (i) goes with 3. 'Tribal Development in M.P.: A Planning Perspective' is Ajit Raizada's study of tribal development planning in Madhya Pradesh — (ii) goes with 4. 'The Bhils: A Study' (1956) is T.B. Naik's ethnography of the Bhils — (iii) goes with 2. 'The Baiga' (1939, with a foreword by the anthropologist J.H. Hutton) is Verrier Elwin's classic monograph on the Baiga of the Satpura–Maikal belt — (iv) goes with 1.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Reverses the two best-known pairs: it hands Russell's colonial survey to Verrier Elwin and Elwin's 'The Baiga' to Russell and Hiralal. A 1916 volume titled 'Central Provinces' cannot belong to Elwin, who wrote in the late 1930s.  (c) Gives the 1916 colonial gazetteer to a modern planning writer (Ajit Raizada) and the post-independence planning book to Elwin — the eras do not match, and 'The Baiga' is not T.B. Naik's.  (d) Tempting because it puts a Bhil study with Elwin, who wrote on many central Indian tribes — but 'The Bhils: A Study' is T.B. Naik's, and Elwin's monograph in this list is 'The Baiga'.

Concept: Writing on the tribes of central India comes in three clear layers, and the title usually tells you the layer. (1) Colonial administrative ethnography — R.V. Russell with Rai Bahadur Hira Lal produced 'The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India' (1916) as an official four-volume survey of the province that later became much of Madhya Pradesh. (2) Anthropological monographs on a single tribe — Verrier Elwin's 'The Baiga' (1939) and T.B. Naik's 'The Bhils: A Study' (1956). (3) Post-independence development literature — Ajit Raizada's 'Tribal Development in M.P.: A Planning Perspective', which reads tribal welfare through the language of plans and programmes.

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